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MacGyver – Trumbo’s World

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  • Title: MacGyver – Trumbo’s World
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MacGyver Monday takes us back to another adventure featuring science-adventurer Angus MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) who goes deep into the Amazon jungle with his old friend Charlie (Peter Jurasik) to investigate what unusual event is affecting the animals of the region. Deep in the jungle they find both the cause of the animals’ flight and a plantation owned by a driven man named Trumbo (David Ackroyd).

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Eye for an Eye

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  • Title: Mu zhong wu ren
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Mu zhong wu ren, released to Western audiences as Eye for an Eye, Eye for an Eye: The Blind Swordsman, and Defiant, stars Miao Xie as the blind bounty hunter. Learning his name only at the end of the film, Cheng Xiazi’s strict regimen is interrupted when he meets a wine maker (Weiman Gao) who is raped, and her family slaughtered, on her wedding day. Receiving no help from the local police, who are fearful of the attackers powerful criminal ties, our hero champions Ni Yan’s need for vengeance.

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The Transporter

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  • Title: The Transporter
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Providing Jason Statham with his first action franchise, The Transporter casts him as expert driver Frank Martin who will transport packages (no questions asked) for any client willing to pay his rate and meet his very specific set of rules. Getting in trouble by breaking his own rules by looking in a moving package holding a kidnapped Shu Qi, Frank’s world is soon put in jeopardy by his irate client (Matt Schulze).

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The Furious

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  • Title: The Furious
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Bryan Mills is a pussy. Director Kenji Tanigaki offers a tale of a mute handyman (Xie Miao) out to find his kidnapped daughter (Yang Enyou). At the same time we’re given a parallel story of a journalist (Joe Taslim) searching for his partner (Jeeja Yanin) who goes missing in the opening scene while investigating the human trafficking ring scooping up children from the poorer regions of the city.

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Eraser

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  • Title: Eraser
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Eraser may not be one of Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s best, but it’s a solid 90s action flick casting Schwarzenegger as U.S. Marshal John Kruger going the extra length to keep his witness alive from a governmental conspiracy and a mole within WITSEC. Schwarzenegger gets his usual big action sequences, although I’m not sure I ever quite buy the actor in a role that requires both stealth and the ability to blend into a crowd.

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